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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2016
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Harasaki, Inuyama, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A track in a transport system includes a standby section associated with a certain processing apparatus to allow a transport vehicle to wait. When determining a transport request to transport a FOUP to a load port of the certain processing apparatus exists, the controller allocates, to the transport vehicle, a first transport command to transport the FOUP to the standby section. When reaching the standby section, the transport vehicle waits while holding the FOUP. Subsequently, when determining that the FOUP is transportable to the load port of the certain processing apparatus, the controller allocates, to the transport vehicle, a second transport command to transport the FOUP to the load port of the certain processing apparatus.